Abstract: The research subject is the main provisions of administrative law and procedure; the research task is to reveal the problem aspects, which appear in the result of shifting the part of the subject of administrative law into the subject of administrative procedure. The research results can be assessed in the context of the study; they are one of the stages of the subject of administrative procedure understanding. The major part of the subject of administrative law focuses on the issues of work of agencies and organizations, vested with authoritative powers, particularly the work of public administration, i.e. public management. The subject of administrative procedure should be understood as the work of courts – administrative legal proceedings and proceedings on administrative offences. The division of Russian administrative procedure law into two branches – administrative-executive (administrative procedure) law and administrative-judicial law - proves that administrative law is losing the part of its subject, connected with the activity of public administration. The field of application of the research results is determined by the research task and the conclusions about the application of the corresponding definitions - such as public administration, administrative procedure, etc. – in the subjects of administrative law and administrative procedure. The author applies general scientific methods (analysis, synthesis, the system method) and special scientific methods (formal legal and comparative legal). The author suggests to interpret administrative procedure as the activity of courts (court procedure). The author notes that the subject of administrative law includes public administration, i.e. the activity of agencies and organizations, vested with authoritative powers. The author admits the disputable character of his conclusions, and plans to continue the research in this sphere. 

Abstract: The study focuses on the analysis of particular aspects of public administration as an activity in the sphere of supervision and control; identification of the problems and contradictions of modern administrative law in the sphere of nature management and environmental protection; consideration of the relationship between the concepts of "control" and "supervision", differentiation of these terms according to the subject composition; development of proposals for the optimal resolution of particular problem issues in this area; identification of the need for amendment, changes of the wordings and versions of several articles of the regulations; amending of the regulation on the state environmental supervision.The methodology of the study is based on the analysis of the literature and legal acts, comparison of the wordings of the relevant provisions of laws and regulations, and revelation of contradictions and inconsistencies.In the conclusion the author formulates the new provisions on public administration in the field of supervision and control as an activity of authorized bodies and organizations, mainly, the executive bodies, regulated by normative acts; these organizations provide the observance of the law, have public authorities and act in the public interests. The author offers the ways of optimal solution of particular problem issues, reveals the necessity to amend and change the wordings and the versions of particular normative acts, and to amend the regulation on the state environmental supervision.